Today, I continue a long string of personal updates. I'm actually getting annoyed that I'm not writing more about traditional personal finance, but when big life events keep happening, I can't help but share. I try to put as much finance into the personal events as possible. Hopefully that helps. Three weeks ago, we adopted a 3-month-old puppy, Coraline... or Cora for short. (This little yellow dog did not last too long.) We were … [Read More...]
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Stowe-ing Away for the Total Eclipse
You know I'm really behind when I'm writing about the solar eclipse of last month ago, right? Everyone made such a big deal of the total eclipse in 2017 that I felt terrible that we missed it. It went across the country from Oregon to South Carolina - far from New England. It wasn't even a blip on our radar outside of the media coverage. My kids were at camp that day, and there might have been 30% coverage. I doubt they noticed anything … [Read More...]
We Bought a New Car!
It's not often that we buy a new car. For the lifetime of this blog (18 years), we only did it when a new kid was born, and we needed to expand. So that's two new cars, a 2012 Subaru Forester and an 2014 Acura MDX. However, we had an old car, too. Back in 2001, I bought a Ford Mustang Convertible. With the kids, it became impractical. The back seat is too small for car seats. So, it mostly sat around. Eventually, the battery would … [Read More...]